Been in Bangalore for more than 3 years and living alone was taking a toll on me. Even though I knew that this city does have a lot of Kashmiri Pandits, I hardly got to interact with anyone, especially among my own age group. Thanks to Orkut and then to the efforts of Snehal, I finally got to meet a few in person.
We all got together at the Forum on 18th of June. Though expecting a bigger number, we were 11 in total - ten guys and one girl. We all just hanged around together, introduced ourselves in Kashmiri – and that was real tough for some! It was really nice to see that all of us are either settling or have settled well into our careers. All of us felt the same need of being and staying together as one community. Helping each other and sharing our thoughts, ideas and passions. The sense of belonging that we all had felt missing, returned to smile at us. Also, we decided to keep having such get-togethers going on in future and also hoped that next time the numbers would swell from 11 to as many as possible. The next get together was decided for 9th of July at Lalbagh. Our only aim is to see all of us coming together and interacting with each other, having fun, going on outings, and developing the sense of bonding and friendship that our community lacks.
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